This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy

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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done, and where the ragman draws circles, up and down the block.

We begin in Arkansas, where a proposed new prison, placed as so many of them are in a small, rural corner of the state, has the local population raising hell . From Bolts:

In truth, there are few strangers around Mill Creek Mountain. Hardly anyone locks their doors in the tight-knit community of mostly ranchers and farmers. Outsiders are fodder for gossip—the sight of an unfamiliar truck could spur a street-wide plenary about who it might belong to.

So when news hit Facebook the day before Hallo

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